girlery

girlery noun: a brothel or show that features scantily clad women.

Noun (1)

girlery (plural girleries)

A brothel or show that features scantily clad women.
- And it had struck him that the success of that meeting was accountable not only by the presence of the Irish galleries, but also of the Irish girleries.1895, Photography - Volume 7, page 470
- Besides the attractions at the several movie houses and go-go-girleries and the local burlesk theatre ( in case you want to get completely away from the aura of libraries) there will be performances of "A Thousand Clowns" at the Village Players Theatre, 2740 Upton.1965, Ohio Library Association Bulletin - Volumes 35-37, page 58
A gallery or room set aside for female visitors to a male-only establishment.
- The Girlery of the House of Commons.ᵀᵐ; ladies are very dissatisfied with their gallery at Westminster Palace.1864, Fun - Volume 6, page 188
- Mrs. Hood has gone to the Girlery (pronounced gallery) of the Freemasons' Hall, to hear, see, and eat and drink all she can.1873, Thomas Hood, Frances Freeling Broderip, The Works of Thomas Hood

girlery (countable and uncountable, plural girleries)

Girlhood.
- W. Hazlitt is in town. I took him to see a very pretty girl professedly, where there were two young girls—the very head and sum of the girlery was two young girls —they neither laughed nor sneered nor giggled nor whispered—but they were young girls—and he sat and frowned blacker and blacker...1806, Charles Lamb, Letter to Wordsworth
- There are lassies and leddies in Scotland, my dear James, of whom you know nothing— houses where, it is obvious from his writings, the author of Modern Athens must have had his howf;— and really, when one considers from what originals he painted his portraits of Edina's girlery, the wonder is that...1892, John Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianae - Volume 1, page 196
Girlishness; something or some collection of things associated with girls, or a girl herself, viewed as the embodiment of girlishness.
- How the white-robed “girleries" perk and crow, as Haunting the blue ribbon of many honors he marches down the chapel steps and out, while fond parents and a German band shower their plaudits of congratulation on this college man.1903, Hamilton Literary Magazine - Volume 38, page 121
- There is enough girlery in Sayers' presentation of her protagonists to make the indictment plausible:1988 Fall, Valerie Pitt, “Dorothy Sayers: The Predicaments of Women”, in Literature and History, volume 14, number 2

Mikhail went over to the wooden partition and peeped into the “girlery,” their name for the small, one-windowed cubbyhole behind the partition.1984, Two Winters and Three Summers, page 10:
Was there more unnatural a daughter in Christendom and Girlery, Mother's rolling eyes besought me to give her to understand.1987, Mid-American Review - Volumes 7-8, page 43:

plural	girleries

Blend of girl + gallery.

From girl + -ery.

What does girlery mean?: Girlery means a brothel or show that features scantily clad women.
How do you use girlery in a sentence?: Mikhail went over to the wooden partition and peeped into the “girlery,” their name for the small, one-windowed cubbyhole behind the partition.
What part of speech is girlery?: Girlery is a noun.
What is the plural of girlery?: The plural of girlery is girleries.

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